SOVIET TROOPS IN NAUSTRELITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100580002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Soviet . one' of firer- anv
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DATE OF CONTENT 31 !wu asfi 19gO to 'Se - e ber 1950
. -DAt E. PREPARED. 27 3eatcn ~her? 1950
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1, On 31 august 1950 and l Jcx2'~onbor 1950 the 110'0streli'~T, (,i 5 VU 54)
barracks installation on the road to Penal vas ocovoied to capacity
by 29000 to 2A503 troops ha wore red-bordered black epaulets, some
with tank insignia, Tanks ware seen in two garages in the southern
section of the billeting areao 1"-'our sheds in the northern sections of
the area were used as temporary garages for tanks and motor vehicles o
The area in front of the sheds was Narked by tracks of tanks and
motor vehicles. Tracks were identified in t 1a
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camp consists of six t w c . ; tcr?y E a quarters, each about 6 33 L3 1 ters
and capable of quartering about 633 troops, an administration building:;
a storage building and a filling etation. Gate guards wore red borde red
black epaulets, do training activity or motor traffic w s observed,
northern exit of I;eustroli :e east of the road to ideu waxidenbur ,
2, Six to seven hundred troops , re quartered in the cant:mment at the
3, soviet troops were seen -jr- the former Larinesiudltang on i t tstroli tzer-
strasse on the southeastern edge of the city, The settlement consists
of eight three-story buildings,, each with a capacity of about 150 men,
and two temporary garages for? about 12 trucks each. Only one story of
the buildings was occupied. The gar=ages were filled with motor vehicles
but no motor vehicle traf' is was observed. An 300 and six were seen
at AT gun drill near the garages. Sentries wore red -bordered black
epaulets with. artillery insignia,
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The . t,3 ccc Terre in the r .stricted area of L)chlosspark veered to be
occupied to capacity, Guards at the entrance of the area tore red-
bordered black epaulets. Local residents said that sheds used as
to naorary garages were also in the area,
5, On 1 and 2 September 1950 the ?anzer Kaserne on the road to i'onzlin
was occupied by tank and artillery troops. At least 2030 troops vier c
seen at conbat training and practice firing; in the training area north
of the install:: t-ion, Fourteen T-34 . and JS-tanks, including the T-34
uanki and, JS--tank , unde a
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practice attack. The noise of
tanks and firing from the area farthe
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to the west indicated that more tr?ooos were oracticin . there.
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6. Troops wearing red bordered bla ~c epaulets were quartered in the Alte
btaserne northwest of the railroad stat .on, Trucks 25X1P25X1
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Four range f ieders or sighting de ri ces were in the barracks yard.
7. Heavy traffic of officers and rnoto vehic'- es, predominantly from the
P r.nz ; - Kaserne, was observed at the headquar?ters on diaibeckersee,
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- - who was about 60 years of age m arrived from the direction of Altstrelitz
and proceeded toward the ?anzcr F aser?ne
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earl I occupied by a hi h.->w an' .rzg o.ffi :er, apparently a general
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left a military in-
stall:Ition, probably a tank rc. a j A ,shoe,, are the southern shore of Lierker-
see,
sunnier training in the neighboring area?
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*1 The r?e )ort shon:~s that the units of the 9th Gds Tank Div
in eus ~rr. were s ;;i :~ l at the pest on 2 ;ajAt znz ber 1950, holding their
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